Colonial League softball drying out, set for big finish

Right from the Colonial League website, a fantastic place that helps us media types a great deal, we list below Tuesday's Colonial softball games. All are makeup games from Friday. Then there's another whole batch of makeups to get in from Monday and then most teams had regularly scheduled games on both Wednesday and Friday. In short, the schedule is as messy as most area fields after all of this rain.

What is important is that Northern Lehigh and Pen Argyl have clinched their division titles and Saucon Valley needs to win just one more game to clinch a third spot. The only race left is between Palisades and Southern Lehigh for the final spot, most likely to be the wild-card spot.

Both the Spartans (11-3) and Pirates (9-5) have four games left and Southern Lehigh has a two-game lead. So, obviously, the two big games on Tuesday (and let's hope they get them in) are SL at Pen Argyl and Palisades at NL. A SL win and Palisades loss would pretty much settle it and the Spartans would move real close to clinching that last spot.

However, if the reverse happens -- Palisades beats Northern Lehigh and Pen Argyl beats Southern Lehigh -- then you have a real right race shaping up between the two over the remainder of the week. And remember, they play each other on Thursday at Palisades.